WK4-1 DB Quickies: My dream teaching environment

ENGAGEMENT, ENGAGEMENT, ENGAGEMENT!

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My Perfect Teaching Environment

As a corporate trainer my dream teaching environment would be a large air-conditioned meeting room at a five star hotel across the hall from the hotels large pool.  The room would have large ceilings, round tables seating up to 12 people each with built in power connection ports.  Video projection screens built in to each of the 4 walls and audio sound capabilities that would almost make you feel like you were attending a concert as you arrived.  What you would see would be blue ocean surrounding you with sounds of waves, wind, and seagulls.  My environment needs to be very colorful with lots of space for interaction and activities.  No podiums!  Cordless microphones so the trainees and instructor could be heard from anywhere in the room during the training.  It would have a pile of large flat cardboard sheets in one corner, large rolls of heavy clear plastic tarps, and large sand buckets containing colorful rolls of duck tape and scissors, cutting blades.  Aisles with post-it writing pads would be next to each round table.  A large treasure chest filled with fabulous merchandise would be visible from the center of the room.  You see, the beginning of every training would have a very interactive team exercise where each table works together to build a boat out of cardboard.   One lucky sailor on the team would be asked to get in the boat and navigate it with oars they would hopefully build to from one end of the pool to the other and back without sinking.  Talk about team engagement and getting the audience engaged!